[PATCH] change detection of wireless

[Lennart Poettering]

On Tue, 05.09.06 21:57, Danny Kukawka (danny.kukawka at web.de) wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> this patch change the detection of wireless network devices. The currently 
> used proc file is/become IIRC deprecated. I change the detection to check 
> for /sys/class/net/*/wireless (which was already in the code but commented 
> out).
> 
> I added also some code to add some keys to IrDA net devices and to avoid 
> adding ARPHRD_IEEE80211 (IEEE 802.11 headers), ARPHRD_IEEE80211_PRISM and  
> ARPHRD_IEEE80211_RADIOTAP devices which are IMO useless and shouldn't be 
> visible for the user.

Those interfaces are definitely not useless. They allow you to capture
raw 802.11 frames which can be used by tools like Ethereal, Kismet and
others.

I wouldn't call that useless. They've certainly more use than those
legacy /dev/audio devices we discussed a few weeks ago.

Lennart

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